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Success and Failure of Indigenous Social Movements: a Comparative Case Study of Ecuador and Chile University of Mississippi eGrove Honors College (Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors Theses Honors College) Spring 5-9-2020 Success and Failure of Indigenous Social Movements: a Comparative Case Study of Ecuador and Chile Jenna White Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis Part of the Indigenous Studies Commons, Latin American Languages and Societies Commons, and the Latin American Studies Commons Recommended Citation White, Jenna, "Success and Failure of Indigenous Social Movements: a Comparative Case Study of Ecuador and Chile" (2020). Honors Theses. 1353. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/1353 This Undergraduate Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors College (Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College) at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SUCCESS and FAILURE OF INDIGENOUS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF ECUADOR AND CHILE © 2020 By Jenna White A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for completion of the Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies at the Croft Institute for International Studies Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College The University of Mississippi University, Mississippi May 2020 Approved: _____________________________ Advisor: Dr. Miguel Centellas ________________________________ Reader: Dr. Oliver Dinius ______________________________ Reader: Dr. Jesse Cromwell Abstract This thesis is a comparative case study of the social movements of the Mapuche in Chile and the fourteen indigenous tribes in Ecuador. I study their social movements by utilizing the structural strain theory of social movements. This theory states that people in society experience deprivation, the people recognize the deprivation, a solution is proposed and this ideology is diffused to the society, events occur to begin motion of the movement, the society (including government) need to be open to change, and eventually there will be mobilization of resources in order to form a successful social movement. The dependent variable is the development of a successful social movement and the independent variables include the manifestations, political climate, and government representation. I hypothesize that the lack of unity among Mapuche communities is the primary cause of social movement failure; however, my research points to a broader cause of failure. The political trajectory of the country is the primary variable that determines success or failure because it determines receptiveness to change. Ecuador’s political climate encourages change, whereas, Chile’s government has, since Pinochet, been rather stagnant in enacting social change based upon outside forces. The movements’ success requires outside support. Since 1990, Ecuador’s indigenous groups have ousted two presidents and achieved constitutional recognition, but what do the Mapuche achieve? With Ecuador’s high indigenous population and its unstable government, the indigenous social movement is able to gather support from others and provide stability, whereas in Chile, demands from the indigenous social movement do not have the same national recognition and relevance. ii Table of Contents Introduction……………….…………………….....………………………..….…….1 Chapter 1: Theoretical Framework………….…..….…………….…...…...6 1.1 Social Movements Overview……..……...……….….…..……….……..6 Chapter 2: Background Information ……….……….………………….…..14 2.1 History of Mapuche in Chile……..……...……….…………………..…..15 2.2 The Case of Ralco Dam …………...…...…………………….…………....20 2.3 History of Indigenous people in Ecuador....…...….......………….24 Chapter 3: Data/Analysis……………..………….…….…….….……….………29 3.1 Methodology……..……...……….………………………….….…….………..29 3.2 Analysis……………………………………………………………………..……….31 Conclusion………………………………………….….………….....…………………45 Bibliography……………………………………..……………....………….………….49 iii Introduction About 42 million people in Latin America identify as indigenous, which makes up nearly eight percent of the total population of the region (Hoffay and Rivas 2016). However, the World Bank reports that they constitute fourteen percent of the poor and seventeen percent of the very poor in Latin America (Freire et al. 2015). As a result, indigenous people are vulnerable to exploitation by the government and other for-profit businesses that target low status populations for personal gain because they place profit and power in a higher position than the people that their work negatively affects. In Chile, this power gap is obvious. In Ecuador, some gaps have closed, but the indigenous people continue to fight for their rights to be recognized. In the 1880s, Chile’s indigenous Mapuche people were placed on reducciones (reservations) so that their land could be used for economic development by timber and hydroelectric companies, among others (Carruthers and Rodriguez 2009). Today, their land is further removed from their control and more large corporations implement environmentally destructive projects in the south of Chile. Politicians continuously promise to help and pass acts to return land to Mapuche control and enforce more regulations, such as stricter Environmental Impact Statements, but little concrete improvement follows. On the contrary, the indigenous people in Ecuador have achieved success in regards to their demands. However, they are not as successful today as they were in the 1990s and early 2000s. The indigenous people in Ecuador celebrated a successful ousting of the President and achieved constitutional recognition in Ecuador’s 1 new 1998 constitution. However, the indigenous political party, Pachakutik, has lost momentum since the 2006 election year when they backed candidate Luis Macas, whereas many indigenous voters supported the opposition, Rafael Correa (Aranda 2016). It lost many of its supporters and failed to act as a strong political party rather than a small special interest party. They also struggle with many of the same land rights issues as the indigenous people of Chile; the indigenous people of Ecuador have not been able to get their land back, either. Upon first glance, it appears that the Mapuche people of Chile and the indigenous people of Ecuador, from about fourteen tribes, participate in many similar activities, such as protests, organization formation, and petitions. Why then do the Mapuche not celebrate the same success that came in Ecuador? Since 1990, there has been a renewal in indigenous social movements in Latin America; therefore, I discuss how indigenous groups—specifically Mapuche in southern Chile—fight for identity recognition and land reform in the context of social movements. I compare two cases that have major contrasts in terms of political stability and numbers, to determine why the Mapuche are unsuccessful, and why Ecuador is not constant in their success. My hypothesis is that the Mapuche people have not united around one central cause, therefore, they focus on too many demands and are not united throughout the country. As a result of lack of unity, they fail to gather the support of the greater society to enact legislative change. I guide my research with the theories of social movements; the structural strain theory describes these movements by explaining the steps necessary—which I will discuss in detail in Chapter 1—to be successful. I use census data from government 2 websites and reports of previous protests, occupations, and other action taken by the Mapuche, as well as the indigenous people of Ecuador. The census data provides me with percentages of people that identify as indigenous in various countries, so that I can analyze the role of representation and the connection with action and success. I look at the number of protests, as well as the theme of the protest. I use surveys of Mapuche people in Chile, as well as other Chileans reported by the Centro de Estudios Públicos in Chile. There are surveys related to identity, urbanization, and the environment. This data is important to understand views towards Mapuche by non-indigenous people to determine if this plays a role in Mapuche achieving political goals. It is also important to demonstrate the Mapuche presence in rural and urban areas and their potential for social movements because social movements rely on a shared identity. The Estudio Nacional de Opinion reports surveys. I use these answers to determine the political context of Ecuador and Chile and look at similarities and differences. Survey questions also report identity opinions and how constituents, indigenous and non-indigenous, feel organizations represent them. I use a conflict tracker to analyze where and why protest events occur. LAPOP reports data collected to show what citizens believe to be the biggest problems in Chile and Ecuador, as well as the percentage of people who participate in manifestations. I compare the Chilean Mapuche case with a more successful indigenous social movement in Ecuador. I compare two indigenous groups that each participate in protests and have indigenous organizations to represent them, the Confederation of Indigenous 3 Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and Coordinadora Arauca-Malleco (CAM), and analyze what differs that would allow one to be successful and one to fail to achieve their goals. I use the collective case-study method, a multi-case study with cases in different locations, through my focus on the Chilean Mapuche and the indigenous people of Ecuador. I compare the cases with the variables—number
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